Mother Teresa’s Birth Centenary: Protests Outside Empire State Building

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NEW YORK (GaeaTimes.com)- The Empire State Building in New York witnessed a peaceful protest by followers of Mother Teresa who has congregated outside the skyscraper to express their disapproval about its decision of not being part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize winner. The year-long birth centenary celebrations of Mother Teresa began in countries across the globe on Thursday.

With the aim of marking the special day, a group of Catholics had urged the owner of the Empire State Building to it lit up in the blue as well as white lights which are the colors of the Catholic Christian Order Missionaries of Charity that was created by Mother Teresa with its global headquarters in the Indian city of Kolkata. However, their appeal was refused by owner Anthony E. Malkin which prompted the protest rally outside the Empire State Building on Mother Teresa’s birthday on Thursday. Anthony E. Malkin defended his decision to refrain from acknowledging the birth centenary of Mother Teresa by saying that he did not want to set a precedent of honoring religious figures by giving his approval to the initiative that was proposed by the Catholics.

However, the explanation of the Empire State Building owner has failed to find support among the followers of Mother Teresa, many of whom feel that the Nobel Peace Prize winner transcends religion and so it the matter can never be demarcated as a religious issue. Nevertheless, on Thursday night the skyscraper was lit up with red, white as well as blue lights to commemorate the anniversary of women’s suffrage.